Sunset Polo Happy Hour at the Sarasota Polo Club
Fri Feb 22, 4:30 PM - Fri Feb 22, 8:30 PM

Welcome to the 28th Season at the Sarasota Polo Club. Polo is a community sport like no other. For decades our Club has been a popular tradition and part of the Sarasota social scene. Established in 1991 as the first development in Lakewood Ranch, the Sarasota Polo Club has a remarkable legacy filled with stories of timber, cowboys, and cold Milwaukee beer. In 1922 the Uihlein family, founders of Schlitz Brewing Company, acquired a 28,000-acre timber ranch in Sarasota. Originally the cowboys who worked on our ranch began playing knock-around polo games in their free time. The ranch hands rode with stock saddles using make-shift equipment, knowing very little about polo, they played by their own rules. Rule #1? The first rider to fall off their horse buys beer for the team, naturally. Robin Uihlein, former Sarasota Polo Club President, ended up donating mallets, saddles, and a few polo ponies to the “cowboy games” - it was then that things got interesting and a “real” polo club was born. Today the Sarasota Polo Club is a premier luxury sporting destination located on 130 perfectly manicured acres, including 45 private equestrian estates, 7 Bermuda grass fields, a half-mile horse track, boarding facilities for 72 horses, a Player’s Clubhouse and a Polo Pavilion.

Here is a link to Sarasota Polo Magazine: https://issuu.com/ae-engine/docs/sp1118